To enable smart-dash ("an Emacs minor mode which redefines the dash key to insert an underscore within C-style identifiers and a dash otherwise") after falling in love with Kebab/Lisp case,
I want to check whether current programming language supports Kebab case and activate smart-dash when it doesn't.
Approaches tried:
- Exhaustively call
(add-hook <mode-hook> #'smart-dash-mode)for every known non-Kebab case language. - Find current
major-mode's syntax, so far I have not found a uniform way, for Common Lisp it's a variable:lisp-mode-symbol-regexp, for Python it's(python-rx (syntax symbol)) - Utilize smartparens:
(defun smart-dash-maybe (&rest _)
(when (require 'smartparens)
(unless (member major-mode (append '(
sh-mode ;commands with "-" are common
cobol-mode forth-mode css-mode ;According to Wikipedia
)
sp-lisp-modes))
(smart-dash-mode))))
But it requires an external package.
